Cultivating Mindfulness in the Classroom
Discover how to use research-based mindfulness practices to help improve your students’ social and emotional wellness as they learn and grow.
Cultivating Mindfulness in the Classroom
Mindfulness is an effective, low-cost way for educators to help students improve their social and emotional wellness as they learn and grow. The authors share practical tools that align to the five key categories of mindfulness benefits—stress reduction, attention, emotional control, positive self-concept, and positive interactions—and offer a step-by-step process for establishing a formal school or classroom mindfulness program.
- Recognize what mindfulness is and is not
- Consider research that presents the benefits of mindfulness practices
- Get student-friendly definitions of mindfulness terms
- Survey the preparation, essential learnings, and directions they must have to apply mindfulness practices in schools
- Answer chapter-ending comprehension questions and compare their answers to those provided in an appendix so they can examine their understanding of mindfulness
Additional Information
Product Code: BKL035, EKL028
ISBN: 9781943360093
“Mindfulness training, with its immense benefits, is embraced in many professional training arenas, including major corporations and even the Navy SEALs, but it lags in the arena of educating our most precious assets. The time is now for us to train the whole mind of our students, and Cultivating Mindfulness in the Classroom is an excellent resource to help educators get on board.”
